Sreesanth confesses, lawyer claims innocence

Even as S Sreesanth's lawyer claimed his client was innocent and his arrest by the Delhi Police a mistake, the pacer himself confessed his crime to interrogators.Sreesanth was taken into custody in the early hours of Thursday in Mumbai and presented in a Delhi court later in the day.

On Friday, the two-time World Cup winning cricketer admitted he had been lured in by bookie and close friend Jiju barely an hour after his lawyer questioned the evidence piled up by the Delhi Police.

"I asked them what is the evidence you have against him, they failed to give any kind of paper against Sreesanth in the court," Sreesanth's lawyer Deepak Prakash said.

"Please support Sreesanth, the person is innocent, we are doing a crime right now giving the wrong news about him. I clarified from him, he is never involved in this, he is totally innocent. He never talked to any bookie," Prakash said.

"No money is received, no telephone call, nothing is established, he is innocent."

BCCI treasurer and secretary of HCA, Aniruddh Chaudhary, made it clear that his state association would not make any plea to the board to revoke the ban on Ajit Chandila in relation to the IPL spot-fixing controversy.

BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur reiterated that there was no way back for Sreesanth, Ankit Chavan and Ajit Chandila because the BCCI would not lift the penalties imposed on them in relation to the IPL spot-fixing controversy.